Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwi Ko Jason toku papa Ko Bella toku mama Ko David taku tungane Ko Shaolyn me ko Kharleema me Ko Melissa aku tuahine Ko Heretaunga toku kainga Ko Riverslea toku kura Ko Whiore taku ingoa No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa
My Goals 2016
1. 2. 3.
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to read books up to Level 26. 2. Be the fastest girl at running in Room1. 3. Learn to fix up my spelling mistakes in my stories.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1. The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety. We know to get down, get low, get out fast. We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School. We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything. We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well. The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there. We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.We also had a Wet and Wild fun day. We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting. Lots of us achieved our goals in learning. 2015 was a great year. Miharo is awesome. Merry Xmas everyone ( Mrs B & R1)
The Firemen and the Mobile Learning Centre visited us Fun swimming at the Hakinakina Sports.I wrote a story on Explain Everything on the ipad about the Solar System Wet and Wild Fun Day
I like writing stories on the ipad and the fun days best.
I am aiming towards my goals. I am a fast runner but not the fastest girl yet.
I am up to Level 24 in reading and reading at 81/2.I am 71/2.
I am also fixing up lots of my spelling errors in my stories now.
I made my goals harder at the start of T4 as I had already passed them.
(Whiore)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month. We have still been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things. We have learnt about Augumented Reality . That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move. I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container. We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’. We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting. We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already. Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day. He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England. We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all. Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook. The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams. We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark. We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Nga Toi .Heavy and Light on the ipad
Jump Jam and Skatepark trip
Omnigym
I loved the trips best of all. I could do lots of activities at the Omnigym. (Whiore)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads.
They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi.
They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school.
The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun
(Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.
We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.
Learning Literacy and Numeracy on the ipad. Also learning how to code.
Getting my Duffy Book. Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I loved PMP but its finished now.
I like my Duffy books too.
My goals are higher now as I am nearly up to them.
I liked the Duffy Assembly best.
(Whiore)
I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Whiore is at Level 23 in Reading now and is reading at an 8 1/2 year level.
She can write 3 pages of story independently and is at Stage 4 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1. We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP. We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children. We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear. We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some great progress in that area. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Learning on the ipads. Sports day with Henare OKeefe Hearty running with us. I like skipping with the new sports gear.
My scary wheku mask.
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun and played lots of games. Hearty was cool too. My mask is scary. The best thing I like is learning reading, writing and Maths on the ipads. (Whiore)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August. I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities such as sports days and Hearty's visit. We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing. The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall. The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths. (Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo) We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school. We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches. We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament. We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games. We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. I like my new bike.
The Duffy Theatre was cool.I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
I liked the Duffy Theatre. They made us laugh.I got my new Duffy book. We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games. The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland (Whiore)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas), The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn (our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland (Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1. We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things. We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps. Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term, were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter. Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us about not bullying and being nice to others. We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too. We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett. Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks. We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau, Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1, and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband), who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet. We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks. It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us. One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube. He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy. We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song andTutira Mai Nga Iwi. We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks. May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm. Whiore in the shearing sheds.
Using Write about it app on the ipad
Page 2 of a 4 page Book creator that Whiore wrote on the ipad about the farm.
Buddies sharing ideas on connections. Making finger puppets In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying.
Showing our planes to Mr Twinn's Dad on Skype. Watching the circus at our school.
I like using the ipads. I liked the farm and all the things and animals we saw. The circus was cool. I am good on Book creator by myself. I liked the finger puppets and talking and singing to Mr Twinn's Dad. I am reading harder books and on Level 22. I can write a page now and spell most of my own words in storywriting. (Whiore)
Whiore has shown some excellent progress in National Standards. She is working at above in all areas. She is on Stage 4 in Maths and is consolidating her level at reading. I don't want to put her up as she has a lot of unknown interest words at this level. We are now working on word solving for meaning not as much visually as well as comprehension of interest words eg neighbourhood which she solved but did not know what it meant. She has also moved up to Stage 4 in Maths and is independent in writing and spelling many of her own words in writing and on the ipad. I will continue to motivate, develop and extend her skills in all areas. (Mrs B).
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections. We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere. Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work. We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals. We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination. We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council. We picked up Litter around our school. It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart. We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly. We will make lots of other connections this term. We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths. We know o’clock and half past. We are all improving in our reading. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories. We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate. We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads. Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki. (Mrs B)
I likedmaking Easter eggs at Easter time. I am getting better at reading. I think I want to get up to Level 26 by the end of the year. I am reading at Level 22 now. I want to write longer stories in writing and not put capital letters everywhere. My goal is to be a faster biker than the other kids too. I liked balancing on everything in PMP (Whiore)
I want to further extend Whiore in reading but are consolidating comprehension and understanding of interest words first. I also want to help Whiore extend her skills in story-writing and start to use adjectives and adverbs as well as to stop her using capital letters randomly in the middle of sentences. Next we will extend her counting on and imaging skills in Mathematics. (Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Whiore Academic Award T1 Prizegiving Assembly. Making Easter Eggs
My comic Life with Nga Kaari on shapes outside. Me balancing in PMP.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening. We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus. We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere. We had fun and loved all the games and free swim. In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates. We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things. We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae. We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish. We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins. We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now. Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground. We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too. Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey. We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck. We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool. (Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I learnt lots there People bring their TVs there but it costs $15 to dump them. We made paper in class. It took days to dry. I like Mr Mac's truck. At the show last year he let me drive the digger. (Whiore)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
Whiore at the Hakinakina swimming sports. Making lego trucks on a wet lunchtime inside.
Looking at the recycling at the Transfer Station. We stopped at the Skatepark for lunch. It was cool.
I do Grandparents reading every Friday with Mr Thornton from the Rotary. We are making recycled paper with Mrs Versey
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had. We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track. That is a goal of many in the class. We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next. We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them. We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment. Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling. We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories. Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo. Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote. Miharo is cool. Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now. I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words still. I am getting faster at running. I am learning to spell lots of my own words in my stories. I am at Level 20 in Reading. I was at Level 17 at the beginning of the year. I am getting really good at Maths too. I am at Stage 3. (Whiore)
Next goals for Whiore are to write most of her own words in story writing. Also to edit spelling mistakes and reinforce fullstops and capital letters in punctuation. Whiore needs to rely on imaging more in Maths as she will revert back to fingers to check. With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas. She is making excellent progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn. She is also getting faster at running. ( Mrs B)
Maths ipads and Writing
Whiore learning on the ipad.
Whiore's animal bar graph in Maths. Whiore writing her own stories spelling many of her own words.
2014
My Goals 2014
1.Learn to swim properly. 2.Learn to write stories (5 sentences). (My goal was 5. It was 8 sentences 22/5/14) It is now 12 sentences 29/8/14) 3. Learn to ride a bike on the pump track.
November/December
We have been very busy with the 4th term activities. -We had a Survivor day, related to our term Inquiry “Survival.” We did relays like Crossing the Road, In the City, Water Safety , Mountain safety etc. The tamariki loved them. Thanks to Sally from Sports HB for lending us all the equipment for 2 afternoons. -We have still been learning with Maths and Writing and Reading. Some children have made amazing progress. A writing focus is on my teacher registration wiki, as it was one of my classroom goals for the year. -We started swimming again in the school pool. All the children are water confident except for one. -We attended the Hakinakina Athletics day at the HB Sports Park against 7 other schools. Some children got placed in their age group, -We all rode in a Double Decker bus to Cornwall park, where we fed the ducks , looked at the birds, played in the playground and had a swim on the Splash pad. -Miharo joined the Preschool for their Xmas party at Inflatable World which they really enjoyed. - Lots of tamariki got trophies at Prizegiving. -The most amazing event though was our trip to Haumoana Zoo. This was again related to our Inquiry, the focus being on Survival and animals. The children fed the lambs, brushed the donkey, said Hello to the talking Cockatiel, led a Llama around the zoo , held rats and guinea pigs and saw 35 different animals and birds. To top it all off they had a fun playground too. -The tamariki have been involved in lots of educational activities and learning as well as outdoor education experiences too. What a busy and fun term it has been. Only the school Disco to go. ( Mrs Bennett)
I liked the Inflatable world and Cornwall Park. They were fun. The best thing was holding the guinea pigs and feeding the lambs at the Haumoana Zoo. We saw how they survived. I got the Junior Girls Academic Trophy at Prizegiving. I can read up to Level 17 now and write over a page of my own story. I can spell lots of the words by myself. I am good at Maths too. (Whiore)
October
We can have fun while learning
We went to the A and P show. We had lots of fun there and learnt lots of things. We went to the Farmyard zoo and got to hold and pat lots of baby animals. We went on the rides and found them exciting. It was hard to eat up all our hotdog and drink our drink as they were big. We watched the Ronald MacDonald show. He remembered us from when he came to our school. He was funny and nice to us. We loved Mr Mac and Doug the Digger. Some of us had turns on making the Digger go at the show. At school 2 days before he let us all climb in his big truck. (Room 2 Student Voice)
I liked everything at the show. Mr Mac let me drive Doug the Digger. It was cool. I liked patting all the animals too and the rides.(Whiore)
September
Goals
1. I have to wait till summer to practise swimming again. 2. I can write 5 sentences and sometimes more. I need to write longer sentences as I write short ones. 3.I can ride a bike on the PUMP track but I have to go slow so I don't fall off.
The Arts
We have been talking about the Arts in Inquiry. We know that there are 4 Arts that we do. These are Dance, Drama, Visual Arts such as Crayon and Dye and painting and Music. We have been doing lots of singing. We sing waiata at Assembly every day and in class. Mrs Bennett puts the songs up on a data projector and we sing the words and listen to them on the ipad. We also use instruments as well. We kani kani in class and at lunchtimes, when the music is on. We have been doing lots of visual Art such as crayon and dye, shape pictures, collage, painting, masks and pattern pictures as well as Maori Art. We also learnt the Legends of Maui and the North Island and Maui and the sun, as well as fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs. We had turns saying them back to the class and the preschool. We used finger puppets too. (Class) I liked making the monster picture and the dinosaur one on the ipad with Khani. ( Whiore).
Writing
I have been learning to write better stories. I want to learn to write and spell all my own words. I use a dictionary or word cards or alphabet cards to help me with words. I am learning to fix up my spelling My stories are getting better all the time. I like writing stories now.(Whiore) I have been encouraging Whiore to write longer stories and to start editing the spelling as well as check her story through, by rereading it ,to see if it makes sense. She still needs to learn where to put full stops. Whiore's stories have improved a lot and are fluent. Next I will encourage her to keep editing her work. (Mrs Bennett)
Hakinakina Cross Country
The school attended the Hakinakina Cross Country which included 5 schools. They were Riverslea, PakiPaki, Mangateretere, Whare Tapere and Omahu. We got lots of placings. The tamariki were amazing. In the Year 0-1 boys Boyden got 2nd and Van 3rd. In the Year 0-1 girls Paskayl got 3rd. In the Year 2 boys Kauri got 1st and Paora 3rd. In the Year 2 girls Anahera got 2nd . ( Mrs Bennett) I got 5th in the Year 0-1 girls in the Hakinakina running and I got 2nd in the school one. (photo above).
August
Duffy Theatre
The Duffy Theatre was awesome. It was funny with lots of things happening. They go to 250 schools around the country. Duffy’s Uncle didn’t like reading but Rose and Duffy got him to read a book and that helped him with his Rugby League game and he scored the winning goal. ( Mrs B) I liked it best when they were chasing each other( Whiore)
Commonwealth Games
We studied the Commonwealth Games when they were on. They were in Scotland in Glasgow. We looked at the Opening and Closing Ceremony on the computer. We all chose a country. Tamihana got the most medals. His team was England. We all liked the swimming and the Cycling. We got lots of medals in the cycling. We talked about all the different sports and practised playing games and sports at school.
July
Prizegiving
Whiore got the Academic award at the end of Term Two Assembly. She always tries hard. She has made very good progress in Reading, Writing and Maths this term. For example she has moved up 7 levels in Reading in the last few months. Well done Whiore we are proud of you ( Mrs Bennett)
Inflatable World ( Good Choices Trip)
Two teachers took 15 children, that had made good choices and followed school values for the term, to Inflatable World. The tamariki loved it. They played for 3 1/2 hours only stopping for a biscuit, drink or the toilet. They wanted me to take lots of photos of their activities. I ended up with about 55. (Mrs Bennett)
I went to Inflatable World with other children that had made Good Choices for the term. I liked the climbing the wall and the big slippery slide best.(Whiore)
Matariki 30/6/14 - 3/7/14
It was another amazing Matariki week at Riverslea school 2014. We started Monday with a whanau, school breakfast. Tuesday we had a Hakinakina sports day, that was lots of fun, with Paki Paki and Whare Tapere schools. Wednesday we had a Nanny and Papa day .Miharo had 11 Nannys and Papas visiting our room. Some also helped us to prepare for the Hangi on Thursday. Thursday we had a huge Matariki festival at the school. The children were great with our Kapa Haka and there was a hangi, stalls and other schools and people and whanau as well as Mayfair Kindegarten visiting. We had Camberley, Hastings Intermediate and Karamu perform as well. Henare OKeefe was DJ for part of the morning. The hangi was a highlight with Dads, Koros and whanau helping out. Other whanau helped behind the scenes with all the activities, sausage sizzle for the performers etc. What am amazing successful week. Ka mau te wihi ( Mrs Bennett).
I liked making the poi with Whaea Char and Mrs Bennett. I also liked the games. I was good at Rangi and Papa. (Whiore)
June
An example of Whiore's storywriting.Also Whiore at PMP.
Whiore's Comic Life. She can do them independently, but this one she did with a Tuakana buddy from Room 4
Learning
I am learning to read harder books. My goal was Level 14 . I am up to Level 11 now. I used to be at Level 6 at the beginning of the term. I can still write 5 sentences. I need to learn to write longer stories and do 8 now. I can try and spell most of my own words. I am getting better at riding a bike on the PUMP track now. I still go slow so that I don't fall off. I like PMP. I am learning to use lots of equipment. We do lots of different things. (Whiore) I am supporting and motivating Whiore with her reading and writing. She has increased in self confidence. Whiore is quite independent in story writing now. Her reading comprehension and word solving are improving. She reads more for meaning now. Next we want to improve her reading levels even further, and motivate her to produce even longer stories, which she can start to edit. (Mrs Bennett)
May
Miharo Learning (Literacy and Numeracy)
I am learning to use lots of new Maths apps on the ipad to help with counting and adding lots of numbers. I like playing alphabet bingo with the class. I have won lots of times cause I know my alphabet and can do it fast. I like writing stories and can do my goal. I can write 6 sentences now. I am going to learn to spell more words and write more sentences. I read my story to the class and to Matua Crouch.(Whiore) I have added more complex apps for Maths on the ipads for the children to use . Whiore especially likes the Addimal app and is learning to add numbers quickly. She can also count to over 100 and add numbers to 20. She likes spelling words on the alphabet grid and is quick at findingthe letters when we play alphabet bingo. I am going to encourage Whiore to spell more words independently and from her spelling lists. (Mrs Bennett)
Skipping (Jump Rope For Heart)
I am learning to skip. I could only skip 8 times. Now I can skip 20 times in the same place. I am going to learn to jump backwards properly next and skip up to 50 times. (Whiore). The school is involved in a Jump Rope for Heart programme. Most of Room 2 could not skip. All but one can skip forwards now. The tamariki are now learning to jump backwards and do skill jumping such as ski jump and bell jump. Most children can run around the court skipping. One boy who could not skip has gone from no skips to 30 on the spot in just 2 weeks. The programme is for 6 weeks. On June 13th 2014 we will have a Jump Rope for Heart skipping activity afternoon for the children and whanau. Children are setting goals to achieve that afternoon. The emphasis is on participation and fun. ( Mrs Bennett)
April
Goals
I am learning to write longer stories. I can ride on the PUMP track a little bit now I got good at swimming. (Whiore) I support Whiore by helping her with her story-writing length and structure. She is learning to spell many of her own words now. Next Term we will extend the number of sentences that she can write. Whiore improved a lot in her swimming skills and confidence over the summer swimming sessions. She will continue to improve on the bike track and PUMP track with confidence.
(Mrs Bennett).
Walking Safely
Constable Phil is teaching us to walk safely. We are learning to cross the road safely. We know where to stand and know parts of the road such as the kerb and the gutter.
Duffy Role Model Assembly
We had Diana Queenin as our Duffy Role Model. She talked about Dinosaurs and showed us fossils. She also told us how important it is to read to helpour learning. The children loved the Duffy books that they chose.
ipads
I built a school with Anahera on the ipad. It shows where we learn things. I had to match the colours and the shapes and patterns too.(Whiore) As part of our Geometry unit in Maths the children had to build either a school or a house in pairs. They had to use attributes such as shapes,pattern,direction,size and colour. The children worked well together and enjoyed the activity. ( Mrs Bennett)
Prizegiving
Whiore got the Improvement award at the end of Term One Assembly. She always tries his best and has made good progress in reading, spelling, mathematics and story-writing this term. Well done Whiore we are proud of you ( Mrs Bennett)
March
ipad Stories
I am making up a story on the ipad. I like making all the different people and recording me talking. I can write lots of words too.( Whiore) I showed the children how to use the Tellagami app on the ipad. The children can make a variety of characters and change them accordingly. They can write words or record their voice. I circulate and assist if needed to support or help. Many of the children are quite independent in this app now. They tend to prefer to record rather than write words and love making lots of different characters. (Mrs Bennett)
Storywriting/ Masks
Whiore I am a pirate. I live on a ship. Whiore selected the mask on the ipad that she wanted to have a photo with. She wrote about it and we published her caption and put the pictures on the classroom wall. The objective was to stimulate the children's imaginations. I encouraged Whiore to think about pirates and where they would live. She also wrote a story in her story-writing book (Mrs Bennett)
Storywriting
I wrote a story about my mask. I spelt lots of the words myself. I can use the dictionary too. Mrs Bennett helped me sound out 'ship'.( Whiore) I encouraged Whiore to spell most of her own words. She is building up a good basic word knowledge from her reading and spelling. She got pirate and mask from the wall where her picture and caption was and got scary from the dictionary with my assistance. When the children have written their stories they read them to me and I highlight in "gold for great" words that they have attempted well or spelt or located for themselves. (Mrs Bennett)
Hakinakina Swimming Sports
We went to the Hakinakinka swimming at the Aquatics. There were lots of other schools there. I was good in the races. (Whiore) We all had a great afternoon at the Hakinakina Cluster swimming sports. We were there with TKK, Mangateretere and Omahu. We had fun races like blowing the little ball across the pool with a straw. We also had flutter-board and swimming races. The children loved the free swim in the bigger pool. They were all awesome and all enjoyed themselves. ( Mrs Bennett)
Life Education
I liked Harold and Anne. We learnt about healthy food. I put the shelter picture up. Having a house to live in is important. ( Whiore) The children all enjoyed the Life Education Trust visit with Whaea Anne. We studied VIP ( Very Important Person), which we talk about in class as we have a VIP each week. We also learnt about healthy food and the important things that we must do to keep our bodies healthy. Two weeks later the children are still able to name and discuss what we talked about. ( Mrs Bennett).
School Swimming Sports
I was good the school swimming sports.I can do a starfish and float on my back. I am really good at getting across the pool fast. I can nearly swim (Whiore) I took daily swimming lessons with the children and taught them water confidence. All children could get in and put their head under. Some could sit on the bottom. Most can now kick with a flutter-board. All can blow bubbles and kick at the side of the pool. It has been rewarding to see how much the class has increased in water confidnce and skills. I have assessed the children according to the Swim Safe evaluation sheet. ( Mrs Bennett
February
Swimming
I like swimming now. The water is above my head but I'm not scared. I can kick and use a flutter-board now. I want to be able to swim properly. Mrs Bennett is teaching me.(Whiore) I am coaching Whiore to use strokes and kick. She is now confident in the water and will give any new skills a try. Together we plan to increase her swimming skills. ( Mrs Bennett)
Bike Track
I can ride a bike on the track and the skills track. I can't go on the PUMP track yet. My goal is to do that.( Whiore) I give Whiore lots of opportunities to practise her skills. She will ride around the outside of the track but she needs lots of encouragement and is reluctant to try the hills on the PUMP track. She lacks confidence at that. I will keep encouraging her to try and praise her efforts. As it is one of her 2014 goals I am sure she will achieve it, as she wants to( Mrs Bennett)
Sue Putt Dental Therapist
Nurse Sue came to show us how to clean our teeth with some big teeth and a big toothbrush. She also brought us all a free toothbrush and some tooth paste for us to clean our teeth after lunch each day. Its called the "Brush In" programme in schools.
Class Rules 2014
We made up 5 class rules. I am showing the last one. "We use nice words." We don't say mean things to other kids.( Whiore) We made up class rules. Whiore modelled one of our rules. She could repeat it and explain what it means ( Mrs Bennett)
2013
My name is Whiore. I am 5 now. I had my birthday . I used to go to Preschool. Now I am in Room 2.
2013
Nov/Dec
Activities
We have had a busy 2 months. We have had a Biathlon where we ran and biked. We have started Milk in Schools. It is yummy. The whole school went in the Kapa Haka festival. It was fun when we went to Beach Education. We all loved swimming in the sea and playing in the sand on the beach. We have been talking about Pay it Forward in Inquiry. Room 2 have been helping our whanau by being nice and doing things for them. We had an awesome Disco with Funkman. Our Christmas party in Room 2 was the best fun. We played games and had presents and lots of yummy party food. Miharo is fun. Miharo is awesome. ( Mrs Bennett)
The Biathlon was fun but I liked the swim afterwards best of all.
Milk in Schoools . Yum! The Kapa Haka.
Shontae was Paying it Forward by helping me and telling me how to build my Dream School on the ipad. Beach Education was fun too.
I liked the Room 2 Xmas party. We had lots of yummy food and a present too.
October
Learning apps on the ipads
MInecraft great for developing geometry, spatial awareness, social skills, oral language skills and its fun ( Mrs Bennett) I like building my own house with everything in it. I built a garden and a pool. I had flowers in my garden. Inside my house I have a TV and a bed and food and a book case with books in it.(Whiore)
Buddy Learning
I like working with my buddy Cypress from Room 1. We read books and learn apps for writing on the ipad. We also put pictures on the ipad of things I like so that I can talk about them and write about them.
Preschool Tuakana- teina
We love to have the Preschool visit us . They have a story with us and we play together. We help them with things and show them where things are. They like coming to see us all in Room 2 as well. I looked after Shoalyn too.
PMP
We have Diane come and take PMP with us. She is from Flax Rock. We have fun and learn lots of different ways to move with our bodies. We get fit too. I like doing the balancing best.
Ronald McDonald
Ronald McDonald came to talk to us about road safety. We knew the song about Stop Look and Listen as we had learnt that in class with Mrs Bennett. Ronald McDonald was funny. He lost his sock . We had to help him find it. He made Mrs Bennett disappear and then come back again but she was really just behind the screen. She jumped out and gave us a surprise. I laughed at Ronald McDonald and Mrs Bennett.
September
Whakapapa Mountain Snow Trip
and Tokaanu Hot Pools 19/9/13
I loved the snow trip. I had fun but it was cold. I also went down the mountain on a sled with Whaea Debz. I liked swimming at the hot pools too. Mrs Bennett took lots of photos of me. (Whiore)) Off we all went at 7am up to Wakapapa for the mountain snow trip. The kids and whanau and staff were all excited and we had a great time. I had 11 children go and 8 had not been to the snow before. They went down the mountain on sleds and a boogie board and threw snowballs. We then went to the Tokaanu hot pools where they swam for over an hour. What an awesome day.( Mrs Bennett)
I was doing the Rock and Roll with Khani. She was my partner. I was turning round and round. (Whiore)
The tamariki were amazing. They danced and sang their way through nearly an hour of music from the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. Even the teachers line danced to Achy Breaky Heart and were zombies toMichael Jackson's Thriller. Miharo Roll n Rolled to music from the 1980's. They did I love Rock and Roll. The lion Sleeps Tonight and Dancing in the Street. What a wonderful performance. ( Mrs Bennett)
I made poi. Mrs Bennett helped me make it. I sang a E rere taku poi and I swung the poi around. (Whiore) I assisted Whiore by first showing her how to make the poi, by putting newspaper into a plastic bag. I then showed her what length to cut the wool. I showed her where to tie it. She could cut the wool and the bag but not tie it successfully onto the bag and so I helped her. Whiore was using her thinking and problem solving skills as well as developing her hand eye co-ordination skills. ( Mrs Bennett).
We had an amazing Matariki week at Riverslea school. We started Monday with a Dawn tree planting ceremony and whanau, school breakfast. Tuesday we had a Hakinakina sports day of Maori games with Bridge Pa school. That was lots of fun. Wednesday we helped prepare for the Hangi on Thursday. Thursday we had a huge Matariki festival at the school. The children were amazing with our Kapa Haka and there was a hangi, lots of stalls and other schools and people and whanau visiting. We had Irongate, Whare Tapere, the Line Dancers, Karamu and singers and dancers. Waata was an amazing DJ with the Funkman and PK in charge of music and coordination, sound etc. The hangi was a highlight with 6-8 Dads, Koros and whanau helping out, as well as whanau such as Roberta and Karina with serving. Other whanau helped behind the scenes with all the activities, sausage sizzle for the performers etc. What am amazing successful week. Ka mau te wihi ( Mrs Bennett).
I liked watching all the other schools best. (Whiore)
June
Writing Sample
I went to Sk8zone. I wrote a story about it. ( Whiore). I supported Whiore writing a story. She can record part of one simple sentence and isolated words from around the room. She also tries to write words with letter attempts. Next steps are to help Whiore write sentences with the words she chooses as well as help her write her own words to talk about her experiences. Orally she could say about how she went down the ramps on a scooter. She also , when questioned, said that she went fast( Mrs Bennett)
Sk8zone 14/6
I was on my scooter the whole time. I fell off but I still went down the ramp ( Whiore)
Discovery T2
Participating and Contributing- Inside Games.
I am learning to play animal dominoes with Cheyden. Mrs Bennett showed us how to play. ( Whiore) I showed Cheyden and Whiore how to play animal dominoes. I then played a game with them to reinforce the skills learnt. They were then able to play several games together independently participating and contributing. Then they moved onto another game. ( Mrs Bennett)
Learning Buddies
R1 and R2 Tuakana- teina
Lyric is my learning buddy. She is helping me to learn new apps on the ipad (Whiore) I assisted Lyric and Whiore and encouraged Lyric to get Whiore to do it for herself after she has shown her. I also extended Whiore skills by teaching her more about making a Book Creator. Whiore can do most of it independently now and she has only been at school less than a month.( Mrs Bennett )
May
Maths Learning
I can use the Maths apps by myself now. I know some shapes and colours and can match them.( Whiore) Whiore has just started school so is learning how to use the ipad and learn her colours and shapes and numbers. I supported her by telling her the names of the concepts she did not know and prompted her to name the things she did know. I reinforced her by praising her attempts and guided her with next steps on how to use the app. ( Mrs Bennett)
Turangawaewae
I talked about Turangawaewae on the video and that it means our place to stand ( Whiore) Whiore was able to talk about what we did in Inquiry but was unsure about the 'where to next.' She has only been at school less than 2 weeks so was not involved in the Inquiry over a term. I thought she did very well to have the understanding that she had gained in such a short time.( Mrs Bennett)
The Bike Track
I can ride a bike now on the track. ( Whiore) I supported Whiore in giving her the confidence to ride a bike. She still feels safe with trainer wheels so I have not made her feel uncomfortable and will wait until she is ready to try riding a bike without the trainer wheels. ( Mrs Bennett)
Table of Contents
2016
Pepeha
Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwiKo Jason toku papa
Ko Bella toku mama
Ko David taku tungane
Ko Shaolyn me ko Kharleema me Ko Melissa aku tuahine
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Whiore taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa
My Goals 2016
1.2.
3.
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to read books up to Level 26.2. Be the fastest girl at running in Room1.
3. Learn to fix up my spelling mistakes in my stories.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.
The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.
We know to get down, get low, get out fast.
We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.
We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads
and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.
We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and
the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.
The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.
We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing
at the new playground at Windsor park.We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.
We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes
and chocolate Santas we kept getting.
Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.
2015 was a great year.
Miharo is awesome.
Merry Xmas everyone ( Mrs B & R1)
The Firemen and the Mobile Learning Centre visited us
Fun swimming at the Hakinakina Sports.I wrote a story on Explain Everything on the ipad about the Solar System
Wet and Wild Fun Day
I like writing stories on the ipad and the fun days best.
I am aiming towards my goals. I am a fast runner but not the fastest girl yet.
I am up to Level 24 in reading and reading at 81/2.I am 71/2.
I am also fixing up lots of my spelling errors in my stories now.
I made my goals harder at the start of T4 as I had already passed them.
(Whiore)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Nga Toi .Heavy and Light on the ipad
Jump Jam and Skatepark trip
Omnigym
I loved the trips best of all. I could do lots of activities at the Omnigym. (Whiore)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads.
They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi.
They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school.
The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun
(Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.
Learning Literacy and Numeracy on the ipad. Also learning how to code.
Getting my Duffy Book. Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I loved PMP but its finished now.
I like my Duffy books too.
My goals are higher now as I am nearly up to them.
I liked the Duffy Assembly best.
(Whiore)
I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Whiore is at Level 23 in Reading now and is reading at an 8 1/2 year level.
She can write 3 pages of story independently and is at Stage 4 Maths.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as
Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as
a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and
our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term.
Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle
raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Learning on the ipads. Sports day with Henare OKeefe
Hearty running with us. I like skipping with the new sports gear.
My scary wheku mask.
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun and played lots of games.
Hearty was cool too. My mask is scary.
The best thing I like is learning reading, writing and Maths on the ipads.
(Whiore)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. I like my new bike.
The Duffy Theatre was cool.I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
I liked the Duffy Theatre. They made us laugh.I got my new Duffy book.
We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games.
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland
(Whiore)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm. Whiore in the shearing sheds.
Using Write about it app on the ipad
Page 2 of a 4 page Book creator that Whiore wrote on the ipad about the farm.
Buddies sharing ideas on connections. Making finger puppets
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others and not bullying.
Showing our planes to Mr Twinn's Dad on Skype. Watching the circus at our school.
I like using the ipads. I liked the farm and all the things and animals we saw.
The circus was cool. I am good on Book creator by myself.
I liked the finger puppets and talking and singing to Mr Twinn's Dad.
I am reading harder books and on Level 22. I can write a page now and spell most of my own words in storywriting.
(Whiore)
Whiore has shown some excellent progress in National Standards. She is working at above in all areas.
She is on Stage 4 in Maths and is consolidating her level at reading.
I don't want to put her up as she has a lot of unknown interest words at this level.
We are now working on word solving for meaning not as much visually as well as
comprehension of interest words eg neighbourhood which she solved but did not know what it meant.
She has also moved up to Stage 4 in Maths and is independent in writing
and spelling many of her own words in writing and on the ipad.
I will continue to motivate, develop and extend her skills in all areas.
(Mrs B).
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)
I liked making Easter eggs at Easter time.
I am getting better at reading.
I think I want to get up to Level 26 by the end of the year.
I am reading at Level 22 now.
I want to write longer stories in writing
and not put capital letters everywhere.
My goal is to be a faster biker than the other kids too.
I liked balancing on everything in PMP
(Whiore)
I want to further extend Whiore in reading but are consolidating
comprehension and understanding of interest words first.
I also want to help Whiore extend her skills in story-writing and start to use
adjectives and adverbs as well as to stop her using capital letters
randomly in the middle of sentences.
Next we will extend her counting on and imaging skills in Mathematics.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Whiore Academic Award T1 Prizegiving Assembly. Making Easter Eggs
My comic Life with Nga Kaari on shapes outside. Me balancing in PMP.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)
I liked the Transfer Station.I learnt lots there
People bring their TVs there but it costs $15 to dump them.
We made paper in class.
It took days to dry.
I like Mr Mac's truck.
At the show last year he let me drive the digger. (Whiore)
Recycling, Swimming and Learning
Whiore at the Hakinakina swimming sports. Making lego trucks on a wet lunchtime inside.
Looking at the recycling at the Transfer Station. We stopped at the Skatepark for lunch. It was cool.
I do Grandparents reading every Friday with Mr Thornton from the Rotary. We are making recycled paper with Mrs Versey
February
What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had.We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track.
That is a goal of many in the class.
We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next.
We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.
We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment.
Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling.
We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories.
Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo.
Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote.
Miharo is cool.
Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)
I can ride on the Pump Track now.
I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Eggy words still.
I am getting faster at running.
I am learning to spell lots of my own words in my stories.
I am at Level 20 in Reading. I was at Level 17 at the beginning of the year.
I am getting really good at Maths too.
I am at Stage 3. (Whiore)
Next goals for Whiore are to write most of her own words in story writing.
Also to edit spelling mistakes and reinforce fullstops and capital letters in punctuation.
Whiore needs to rely on imaging more in Maths as she will revert back to fingers to check.
With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling she will improve in those areas.
She is making excellent progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn.
She is also getting faster at running.
( Mrs B)
Maths ipads and Writing
Whiore learning on the ipad.
Whiore's animal bar graph in Maths. Whiore writing her own stories spelling many of her own words.
2014
My Goals 2014
1.Learn to swim properly.
2. Learn to write stories (5 sentences).
(My goal was 5. It was 8 sentences 22/5/14) It is now 12 sentences 29/8/14)
3. Learn to ride a bike on the pump track.
November/December
We have been very busy with the 4th term activities.-We had a Survivor day, related to our term Inquiry “Survival.”
We did relays like Crossing the Road, In the City, Water Safety ,
Mountain safety etc. The tamariki loved them.
Thanks to Sally from Sports HB for lending us all the equipment for 2 afternoons.
-We have still been learning with Maths and Writing and Reading.
Some children have made amazing progress. A writing focus is on my teacher registration wiki,
as it was one of my classroom goals for the year.
-We started swimming again in the school pool. All the children are water confident except for one.
-We attended the Hakinakina Athletics day at the HB Sports Park against 7 other schools.
Some children got placed in their age group,
-We all rode in a Double Decker bus to Cornwall park, where we fed the ducks , looked at the birds,
played in the playground and had a swim on the Splash pad.
-Miharo joined the Preschool for their Xmas party at Inflatable World which they really enjoyed.
- Lots of tamariki got trophies at Prizegiving.
-The most amazing event though was our trip to Haumoana Zoo.
This was again related to our Inquiry, the focus being on Survival and animals.
The children fed the lambs, brushed the donkey, said Hello to the talking Cockatiel,
led a Llama around the zoo , held rats and guinea pigs and saw 35 different animals and birds.
To top it all off they had a fun playground too.
-The tamariki have been involved in lots of educational activities and learning
as well as outdoor education experiences too. What a busy and fun term it has been.
Only the school Disco to go. ( Mrs Bennett)
I liked the Inflatable world and Cornwall Park. They were fun.
The best thing was holding the guinea pigs and feeding the lambs at the Haumoana Zoo.
We saw how they survived.
I got the Junior Girls Academic Trophy at Prizegiving.
I can read up to Level 17 now and write over a page of my own story.
I can spell lots of the words by myself. I am good at Maths too. (Whiore)
October
We can have fun while learning
We went to the A and P show. We had lots of fun there and learnt lots of things.
We went to the Farmyard zoo and got to hold and pat lots of baby animals.
We went on the rides and found them exciting.
It was hard to eat up all our hotdog and drink our drink as they were big.
We watched the Ronald MacDonald show.
He remembered us from when he came to our school.
He was funny and nice to us.
We loved Mr Mac and Doug the Digger.
Some of us had turns on making the Digger go at the show.
At school 2 days before he let us all climb in his big truck.
(Room 2 Student Voice)
I liked everything at the show.
Mr Mac let me drive Doug the Digger.
It was cool.
I liked patting all the animals too and the rides.(Whiore)
September
Goals
1. I have to wait till summer to practise swimming again.2. I can write 5 sentences and sometimes more.
I need to write longer sentences as I write short ones.
3.I can ride a bike on the PUMP track but I have to go slow so I don't fall off.
The Arts
We have been talking about the Arts in Inquiry. We know that there are 4 Arts that we do.
These are Dance, Drama, Visual Arts such as Crayon and Dye and painting and Music.
We have been doing lots of singing. We sing waiata at Assembly every day and in class.
Mrs Bennett puts the songs up on a data projector and we sing the words and listen
to them on the ipad. We also use instruments as well. We kani kani in class
and at lunchtimes, when the music is on. We have been doing lots of visual Art
such as crayon and dye, shape pictures, collage, painting, masks and pattern pictures
as well as Maori Art.
We also learnt the Legends of Maui and the North Island and Maui and the sun,
as well as fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs.
We had turns saying them back to the class and the preschool. We used finger puppets too.
(Class)
I liked making the monster picture and the dinosaur one on the ipad with Khani. ( Whiore).
Writing
I have been learning to write better stories. I want to learn to write and spell all my own words.
I use a dictionary or word cards or alphabet cards to help me with words.
I am learning to fix up my spelling
My stories are getting better all the time.
I like writing stories now.(Whiore)
I have been encouraging Whiore to write longer stories
and to start editing the spelling
as well as check her story through, by rereading it ,to see if it makes sense.
She still needs to learn where to put full stops.
Whiore's stories have improved a lot and are fluent.
Next I will encourage her to keep editing her work.
(Mrs Bennett)
Hakinakina Cross Country
The school attended the Hakinakina Cross Country which included 5 schools.
They were Riverslea, PakiPaki, Mangateretere, Whare Tapere and Omahu.
We got lots of placings. The tamariki were amazing.
In the Year 0-1 boys Boyden got 2nd and Van 3rd.
In the Year 0-1 girls Paskayl got 3rd.
In the Year 2 boys Kauri got 1st and Paora 3rd.
In the Year 2 girls Anahera got 2nd . ( Mrs Bennett)
I got 5th in the Year 0-1 girls in the Hakinakina running and
I got 2nd in the school one. (photo above).
August
Duffy Theatre
The Duffy Theatre was awesome. It was funny with lots of things happening. They go to 250 schools around the country.
Duffy’s Uncle didn’t like reading but Rose and Duffy got him to read a book and that helped him
with his Rugby League game and he scored the winning goal. ( Mrs B)
I liked it best when they were chasing each other( Whiore)
Commonwealth Games
We studied the Commonwealth Games when they were on. They were in Scotland in Glasgow.
We looked at the Opening and Closing Ceremony on the computer.
We all chose a country. Tamihana got the most medals. His team was England.
We all liked the swimming and the Cycling. We got lots of medals in the cycling.
We talked about all the different sports and practised playing games and sports at school.
July
Prizegiving
Whiore got the Academic award at the end of Term Two Assembly.
She always tries hard. She has made very good progress in Reading,
Writing and Maths this term.
For example she has moved up 7 levels in Reading in the last few months.
Well done Whiore we are proud of you ( Mrs Bennett)
Inflatable World ( Good Choices Trip)
Two teachers took 15 children, that had made good choices and followed school
values for the term, to Inflatable World. The tamariki loved it.
They played for 3 1/2 hours only stopping for a biscuit, drink or the toilet.
They wanted me to take lots of photos of their activities. I ended up with about 55.
(Mrs Bennett)
I went to Inflatable World with other children that had made Good Choices for the term.
I liked the climbing the wall and the big slippery slide best.(Whiore)
Matariki 30/6/14 - 3/7/14
It was another amazing Matariki week at Riverslea school 2014.
We started Monday with a whanau, school breakfast.
Tuesday we had a Hakinakina sports day, that was lots of fun, with Paki Paki and Whare Tapere schools.
Wednesday we had a Nanny and Papa day .Miharo had 11 Nannys and Papas visiting
our room. Some also helped us to prepare for the Hangi on Thursday.
Thursday we had a huge Matariki festival at the school.
The children were great with our Kapa Haka and there was a hangi, stalls
and other schools and people and whanau as well as Mayfair Kindegarten visiting.
We had Camberley, Hastings Intermediate and Karamu perform as well.
Henare OKeefe was DJ for part of the morning.
The hangi was a highlight with Dads, Koros and whanau helping out.
Other whanau helped behind the scenes with all the activities, sausage sizzle for the performers etc.
What am amazing successful week.
Ka mau te wihi ( Mrs Bennett).
I liked making the poi with Whaea Char and Mrs Bennett.
I also liked the games.
I was good at Rangi and Papa. (Whiore)
June
An example of Whiore's storywriting. Also Whiore at PMP.Whiore's Comic Life. She can do them independently, but this one she did with a Tuakana
buddy from Room 4
Learning
I am learning to read harder books. My goal was Level 14 . I am up to Level 11 now.I used to be at Level 6 at the beginning of the term.
I can still write 5 sentences. I need to learn to write longer stories and do 8 now.
I can try and spell most of my own words.
I am getting better at riding a bike on the PUMP track now.
I still go slow so that I don't fall off.
I like PMP. I am learning to use lots of equipment.
We do lots of different things. (Whiore)
I am supporting and motivating Whiore with her reading and writing.
She has increased in self confidence. Whiore is quite independent in story writing now.
Her reading comprehension and word solving are improving.
She reads more for meaning now.
Next we want to improve her reading levels even further,
and motivate her to produce even longer stories, which she can start to edit.
(Mrs Bennett)
May
Miharo Learning (Literacy and Numeracy)
I am learning to use lots of new Maths apps on the ipad to help with counting and adding
lots of numbers.
I like playing alphabet bingo with the class. I have won lots of times cause
I know my alphabet and can do it fast.
I like writing stories and can do my goal.
I can write 6 sentences now.
I am going to learn to spell more words and write more sentences.
I read my story to the class and to Matua Crouch.(Whiore)
I have added more complex apps for Maths on the ipads for the children to use .
Whiore especially likes the Addimal app and is learning to add numbers quickly.
She can also count to over 100 and add numbers to 20. She likes spelling words on the alphabet grid
and is quick at finding the letters when we play alphabet bingo.
I am going to encourage Whiore to spell more words independently and from her spelling lists.
(Mrs Bennett)
Skipping (Jump Rope For Heart)
I am learning to skip. I could only skip 8 times.
Now I can skip 20 times in the same place.
I am going to learn to jump backwards properly next
and skip up to 50 times. (Whiore).
The school is involved in a Jump Rope for Heart programme.
Most of Room 2 could not skip. All but one can skip forwards now.
The tamariki are now learning to jump backwards and do skill jumping
such as ski jump and bell jump.
Most children can run around the court skipping.
One boy who could not skip has gone from no skips to 30 on the spot
in just 2 weeks. The programme is for 6 weeks.
On June 13th 2014 we will have a Jump Rope for Heart skipping activity afternoon
for the children and whanau.
Children are setting goals to achieve that afternoon.
The emphasis is on participation and fun. ( Mrs Bennett)
April
Goals
I am learning to write longer stories.
I can ride on the PUMP track a little bit now
I got good at swimming. (Whiore)
I support Whiore by helping her with her story-writing length and structure.
She is learning to spell many of her own words now.
Next Term we will extend the number of sentences that she can write.
Whiore improved a lot in her swimming skills and confidence
over the summer swimming sessions.
She will continue to improve on the bike track and PUMP track with confidence.
(Mrs Bennett).
Walking Safely
Constable Phil is teaching us to walk safely.
We are learning to cross the road safely.
We know where to stand and know parts of the road such as the kerb and the gutter.
Duffy Role Model Assembly
We had Diana Queenin as our Duffy Role Model. She talked about Dinosaurs
and showed us fossils. She also told us how important it is to read to help our learning.
The children loved the Duffy books that they chose.
ipads
I built a school with Anahera on the ipad. It shows where we learn things.
I had to match the colours and the shapes and patterns too.(Whiore)
As part of our Geometry unit in Maths the children had to build either a school
or a house in pairs. They had to use attributes such as shapes,pattern,direction,size and colour.
The children worked well together and enjoyed the activity. ( Mrs Bennett)
Prizegiving
Whiore got the Improvement award at the end of Term One Assembly.
She always tries his best and has made good progress in reading, spelling,
mathematics and story-writing this term.
Well done Whiore we are proud of you ( Mrs Bennett)
March
ipad Stories
I am making up a story on the ipad.
I like making all the different people and recording me talking.
I can write lots of words too.( Whiore)
I showed the children how to use the Tellagami app on the ipad.
The children can make a variety of characters and change them accordingly.
They can write words or record their voice.
I circulate and assist if needed to support or help.
Many of the children are quite independent in this app now.
They tend to prefer to record rather than write words and love making lots of different characters.
(Mrs Bennett)
Storywriting/ Masks
Whiore
I am a pirate.
I live on a ship.
Whiore selected the mask on the ipad that she wanted to have a photo with.
She wrote about it and we published her caption
and put the pictures on the classroom wall.
The objective was to stimulate the children's imaginations.
I encouraged Whiore to think about pirates and where they would live.
She also wrote a story in her story-writing book
(Mrs Bennett)
Storywriting
I wrote a story about my mask.
I spelt lots of the words myself. I can use the dictionary too.
Mrs Bennett helped me sound out 'ship'.( Whiore)
I encouraged Whiore to spell most of her own words.
She is building up a good basic word knowledge from her reading and spelling.
She got pirate and mask from the wall where her picture and caption was
and got scary from the dictionary with my assistance.
When the children have written their stories they read them to me and I highlight in "gold for great"
words that they have attempted well or spelt or located for themselves. (Mrs Bennett)
Hakinakina Swimming Sports
We went to the Hakinakinka swimming at the Aquatics.
There were lots of other schools there.
I was good in the races. (Whiore)
We all had a great afternoon at the Hakinakina Cluster swimming sports.
We were there with TKK, Mangateretere and Omahu.
We had fun races like blowing the little ball across the pool with a straw.
We also had flutter-board and swimming races.
The children loved the free swim in the bigger pool.
They were all awesome and all enjoyed themselves. ( Mrs Bennett)
Life Education
I liked Harold and Anne. We learnt about healthy food.
I put the shelter picture up.
Having a house to live in is important. ( Whiore)
The children all enjoyed the Life Education Trust visit with Whaea Anne.
We studied VIP ( Very Important Person), which we talk about in class
as we have a VIP each week.
We also learnt about healthy food and the important things that we must do to keep our bodies healthy.
Two weeks later the children are still able to name and discuss what we talked about. ( Mrs Bennett).
School Swimming Sports
I was good the school swimming sports.I can do a starfish
and float on my back.
I am really good at getting across the pool fast.
I can nearly swim (Whiore)
I took daily swimming lessons with the children and taught them water confidence.
All children could get in and put their head under.
Some could sit on the bottom. Most can now kick with a flutter-board.
All can blow bubbles and kick at the side of the pool.
It has been rewarding to see how much the class has increased in water confidnce and skills.
I have assessed the children according to the Swim Safe evaluation sheet. ( Mrs Bennett
February
Swimming
I like swimming now. The water is above my head but I'm not scared.I can kick and use a flutter-board now. I want to be able to swim properly.
Mrs Bennett is teaching me.(Whiore)
I am coaching Whiore to use strokes and kick.
She is now confident in the water and will give any new skills a try.
Together we plan to increase her swimming skills. ( Mrs Bennett)
Bike Track
I can ride a bike on the track and the skills track.
I can't go on the PUMP track yet.
My goal is to do that.( Whiore)
I give Whiore lots of opportunities to practise her skills.
She will ride around the outside of the track but
she needs lots of encouragement and is reluctant
to try the hills on the PUMP track. She lacks confidence at that.
I will keep encouraging her to try and praise her efforts.
As it is one of her 2014 goals
I am sure she will achieve it, as she wants to( Mrs Bennett)
Sue Putt Dental Therapist
Nurse Sue came to show us how to clean our teeth with some big teeth and a big toothbrush.
She also brought us all a free toothbrush and some tooth paste for us to clean our teeth
after lunch each day.
Its called the "Brush In" programme in schools.
Class Rules 2014
We made up 5 class rules.
I am showing the last one. "We use nice words."
We don't say mean things to other kids.( Whiore)
We made up class rules. Whiore modelled one of our rules.
She could repeat it and explain what it means ( Mrs Bennett)
2013
My name is Whiore. I am 5 now. I had my birthday .I used to go to Preschool.
Now I am in Room 2.
2013
Nov/Dec
Activities
We have had a busy 2 months. We have had a Biathlon where we ran and biked.We have started Milk in Schools. It is yummy.
The whole school went in the Kapa Haka festival.
It was fun when we went to Beach Education.
We all loved swimming in the sea and playing in the sand on the beach.
We have been talking about Pay it Forward in Inquiry.
Room 2 have been helping our whanau by being nice and doing things for them.
We had an awesome Disco with Funkman.
Our Christmas party in Room 2 was the best fun.
We played games and had presents and lots of yummy party food.
Miharo is fun. Miharo is awesome. ( Mrs Bennett)
The Biathlon was fun but I liked the swim afterwards best of all.
Milk in Schoools . Yum! The Kapa Haka.
Shontae was Paying it Forward by helping me and telling me
how to build my Dream School on the ipad. Beach Education was fun too.
I liked the Room 2 Xmas party. We had lots of yummy food and a present too.
October
Learning apps on the ipads
MInecraft great for developing geometry, spatial awareness, social skills,
oral language skills and its fun ( Mrs Bennett)
I like building my own house with everything in it.
I built a garden and a pool. I had flowers in my garden.
Inside my house I have a TV and a bed and food
and a book case with books in it.(Whiore)
Buddy Learning
I like working with my buddy Cypress from Room 1.
We read books and learn apps for writing on the ipad.
We also put pictures on the ipad of things I like
so that I can talk about them and write about them.
Preschool Tuakana- teina
We love to have the Preschool visit us . They have a story with us and we play together.
We help them with things and show them where things are.
They like coming to see us all in Room 2 as well.
I looked after Shoalyn too.
PMP
We have Diane come and take PMP with us. She is from Flax Rock.
We have fun and learn lots of different ways to move with our bodies.
We get fit too.
I like doing the balancing best.
Ronald McDonald
Ronald McDonald came to talk to us about road safety.We knew the song about Stop Look and Listen as we had learnt that in class with Mrs Bennett.
Ronald McDonald was funny. He lost his sock . We had to help him find it.
He made Mrs Bennett disappear and then come back again but she was really just behind the screen.
She jumped out and gave us a surprise.
I laughed at Ronald McDonald and Mrs Bennett.
September
Whakapapa Mountain Snow Trip
and Tokaanu Hot Pools 19/9/13
I loved the snow trip. I had fun but it was cold.
I also went down the mountain on a sled with Whaea Debz.
I liked swimming at the hot pools too.
Mrs Bennett took lots of photos of me. (Whiore))
Off we all went at 7am up to Wakapapa for the mountain snow trip.
The kids and whanau and staff were all excited and we had a great time.
I had 11 children go and 8 had not been to the snow before. They went down the mountain on
sleds and a boogie board and threw snowballs.
We then went to the Tokaanu hot pools where they swam for over an hour.
What an awesome day.( Mrs Bennett)
Buddy Work
Lyric and Whiore- Kupu HouAugust
School Production 29/8/13
Dynamo DukeboxI was doing the Rock and Roll with Khani.
She was my partner.
I was turning round and round. (Whiore)
The tamariki were amazing. They danced and sang their way through
nearly an hour of music from the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.
Even the teachers line danced to Achy Breaky Heart and
were zombies to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Miharo Roll n Rolled to music from the 1980's.
They did I love Rock and Roll. The lion Sleeps Tonight
and Dancing in the Street. What a wonderful performance. ( Mrs Bennett)
Learning Buddies- Whiore's Goals
Lyric and WhioreDiscovery Making Poi T3
I made poi. Mrs Bennett helped me make it.
I sang a E rere taku poi and I swung the poi around. (Whiore)
I assisted Whiore by first showing her how to make the poi,
by putting newspaper into a plastic bag.
I then showed her what length to cut the wool.
I showed her where to tie it.
She could cut the wool and the bag but not tie it successfully onto the bag
and so I helped her. Whiore was using her thinking and problem solving skills
as well as developing her hand eye co-ordination skills.
( Mrs Bennett).
July
Learning Buddies presentation
Lyric and WhioreMatariki 1/7/13- 5/7/13
We had an amazing Matariki week at Riverslea school.
We started Monday with a Dawn tree planting ceremony and whanau, school breakfast.
Tuesday we had a Hakinakina sports day of Maori games with Bridge Pa school.
That was lots of fun. Wednesday we helped prepare for the Hangi on Thursday.
Thursday we had a huge Matariki festival at the school.
The children were amazing with our Kapa Haka and there was a hangi, lots of stalls
and other schools and people and whanau visiting.
We had Irongate, Whare Tapere, the Line Dancers, Karamu and singers and dancers.
Waata was an amazing DJ with the Funkman and PK in charge of music and coordination, sound etc.
The hangi was a highlight with 6-8 Dads, Koros and whanau helping out, as well as whanau such as Roberta and Karina with
serving. Other whanau helped behind the scenes with all the activities, sausage sizzle for the performers etc.
What am amazing successful week.
Ka mau te wihi ( Mrs Bennett).
I liked watching all the other schools best. (Whiore)
June
Writing Sample
I went to Sk8zone. I wrote a story about it. ( Whiore).
I supported Whiore writing a story.
She can record part of one simple sentence and isolated words from around the room.
She also tries to write words with letter attempts.
Next steps are to help Whiore write sentences with the words she chooses
as well as help her write her own words to talk about her experiences.
Orally she could say about how she went down the ramps on a scooter.
She also , when questioned, said that she went fast( Mrs Bennett)
Sk8zone 14/6
I was on my scooter the whole time. I fell off but I still went down the ramp ( Whiore)
Discovery T2
Participating and Contributing- Inside Games.I am learning to play animal dominoes with Cheyden. Mrs Bennett showed us how to play. ( Whiore)
I showed Cheyden and Whiore how to play animal dominoes. I then played a game with them to reinforce the skills learnt.
They were then able to play several games together independently participating and contributing.
Then they moved onto another game. ( Mrs Bennett)
Learning Buddies
R1 and R2 Tuakana- teinaLyric is my learning buddy. She is helping me to learn new apps on the ipad (Whiore)
I assisted Lyric and Whiore and encouraged Lyric to get Whiore to do it for herself after she has shown her.
I also extended Whiore skills by teaching her more about making a Book Creator.
Whiore can do most of it independently now and she has only been at school less than a month.( Mrs Bennett )
May
Maths Learning
I can use the Maths apps by myself now.
I know some shapes and colours and can match them.( Whiore)
Whiore has just started school so is learning how to use the ipad and learn her colours and shapes and numbers.
I supported her by telling her the names of the concepts she did not know and prompted her to name the things she did know.
I reinforced her by praising her attempts and guided her with next steps on how to use the app. ( Mrs Bennett)
Turangawaewae
I talked about Turangawaewae on the video and that it means our place to stand ( Whiore)
Whiore was able to talk about what we did in Inquiry but was unsure about the 'where to next.'
She has only been at school less than 2 weeks so was not involved in the Inquiry over a term.
I thought she did very well to have the understanding that she had gained in such a short time.( Mrs Bennett)
The Bike Track
I can ride a bike now on the track. ( Whiore)
I supported Whiore in giving her the confidence to ride a bike.
She still feels safe with trainer wheels so I have not made her feel uncomfortable
and will wait until she is ready to try riding a bike without the trainer wheels. ( Mrs Bennett)